Tyler the Creator: Goblin

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There’s nothing delicate about Tyler the Creator. Or at least, he
manages to cover any delicacy under a cloak of rebellion. Mark E. Smith of
the Fall made a good point in his memoir, Renegade, that rebellion is
a middle-class phenomenon: working-class kids tend to be too sympathetic to
what their parents had to sacrifice to throw it all back in their faces. For
all of its fantasies about raping pregnant women and stabbing Bruno Mars in
the oesophagus, there’s an educated, middle-class sensibility to Goblin,
partly the reason the mostly white, alternative music community has taken
Tyler the Creator